Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-03-31
MISSING LINKS

New railroads to the length of 1000
miles were built in the United States
during the past year.
London is full of unknown Ameri-
can seeking to float bogus land and
other wildcat companies.
Mines a o be lighted by cleo
.rleity at y half the cost of lighting
them by oil and candles.
A Fargo minister has a son who was
DOR July 4, 1885, and a daughter who
was born Christmas Day, 1886.
The water-works now being erected
In Helena, Montana, will cost the tax
payers $500, 900 before finished.
The cost of postage stamps to the
government, covering everything, in
eiuding delivery, is Sc 80 per thousand.
Oranges were raised this season at
Sage hill, Cal, where the elevation il
at least three thousand feet above the
SEE.
1t Is reported that last year more
than 100, 600 emigrants went to the
Argentine Republic, most of them from
Italy.
Japanese orange trees are being in
troduced into California. They will
give a new and excellent variety of
fruit.
Oscar Wilde has grown quite obese,
and some OF his friends fear that he is
suffering from fatty degeneration of
the intellect.
Brain is the name of a new Kentucky
editor. He a scarcely be said, how
ever, to fill the long felt want, as hs
can only edit one paper.
John Gomez, a Portuguese. has lived
over fifty years among the 10, O00 islands
off the coast of Florida. He is one
hundred and one years old.
ALondon tailor has invented a dress
coat and waistcoat combined. by which
means the coat is kept in place much
better than when separate.
1t is estimated that at least 25.oOO.-
600 false teeth are manufactured an
nually. Of this amount London alone
manufactures 10000, 900.
The name of a Connecticut salvation
list is Little Johnny Bull, the devil
killer, man-slayer, devil-hater, and son
of a king, fresh from the old country.n
An oyster growing out of the mouth
of a small ink bottle was a curious for
nation caught on the Virginia coast.
The oyster had grown to twice the size
of the ink bottle.
Large numbers of persimmon LOGS
are being shipped to the north from
Norfolk, Va, 10 be manufactured into
shoe lasts, for which they are said to
be particularly adapted.
During the past year twenty-five
thousand articles have accumulated in
the dead-letter office. The sale includ-
ed all sorts of necessaries and luxuries,
from Easter eggs TO seersucker suits.
The late Truman NJ. Post of ST.
Louis, the pioneer of Congregational
ism in the West, learned Latin from a
grammar fastened to the handle of his
pillow when Il farm-boy in Vermont.
On one street in Bluehill, Me-, less
than half i mile long, live fifteen wild
ows. There is only one house on the
street in which there is not a widow,
and that is occupied by two maiden
ladies.
The slaughter of Holsters at Prince
Edward island is something astounding.
There were exported the past season
81, 900 cases, mostly to Europe, which
involved the killing of So, 000, 900 lob
sters.
A Brooklyn HORSEPOWER has recent
ly been compelled by a Brooklyn court
to pay $500 damages to a woman
who broke one of her legs in falling
down a fight of stairs in a house own
ed by him.
A lawyers clerical error in the trans
fer of a certain piece of property in
Kansas City, which in 1874 was sold
for $3.50. has led to a lawsuit over the
possession of the land, which is now
valued at 5000, 900.
vic VI Tie DdilhS al atHihba, va,
which loaned nearly a million dollars
last year lost only about 5000 Of that
amount. a strong proof that the people
in that section of the country are pref
ty good debt-payers.
An eastern zoologist recently paid
$500 for four crowned pigeons. They
are of IA delicate steel-blue color, are
almost as large as turkeys, and the
crest is composed of a row of feathers
standing upright.
The Plonk family, in Lincolnton, N.
CT is long-lived. Joseph is now ninety
eight years old; his sister, Mrs. Teth-
row, is one hundred years, and Mrs.
Weaver, another sister, is m hundred
and two years of age.
The Duke of Devonshire, the Duke
of Westminster and the Duke OF Bed
ford have incomes ranging from 81
500, 900 to 81, 800, 900 a year. No one
thinks of trying TO estimate their pos
sessions in any other way.
A huge iron reservoir is being built
at a remote spot in the outer harbor OF
Amsterdam for the storage of petrole-
UNI. 1t will be nearly thirty-three feet
in diameter and of the same depth, and
is calculated TO hold 1,740,000 gallons.
A man in Lancaster county, Pennsyl-
vania, fired from his wagon into a flock
Of birds while driving home n after
noon recently. and evcr since his horse
has been deaf from the effects OF the
shock given him by the report OF the
gun.
A new style Of paving-block, for
which Is claimed some special advan-
tages, is composed of a hollow iron
shell filed with any desired concrete:
the shell being arched underneath. and
for street paving are some four inches
wide and from ten TO twelve long.
General Roger A. Pryor went to New
York soon after the war without a dol
lar, and with no introduction save his
reputation as a soldier in the lost cause.
He ACQUIRED almost Immediately a good
practice. which has steadily grown, I'M
til il now brings him $4,000 a year.
An .impressionist'' sent in a .'sun-
set picture TO the Royal academy. He
carefully marked on the back VI the
frame which was the right side upi but
he added in n polite notes SHOULD
nav work be placed upon your walls up-
side down, please catalogue 1t As sun
rise"